As no further features will be added between the release of Rudi and KDE 3.2, this is an excellent opportunity to preview the most advanced and powerful KDE yet. Packages may be downloaded from download.kde.org. As of this writing there are sources and binaries for SuSE and Conectiva, but other distributions will follow. The Konstruct build toolkit was updated.

With its 25 page feature plan, nearly 10,000 bugs closed and over 2,000 user wishes processed a complete report on what one can expect from Rudi would be so long that by the time you finished reading it, there would probably be a more current KDE release to try out. The only way to truly appreciate this release is to experience it first hand, but here are a few of the highlights anyways...

A KNOPPIX version with Rudi would be great for testing - perhaps someone is already working on this? It would make sense for people who do not want to change their existing KDE installs but who would like to participate in the beta testing process.

we had to leave _something_ for the final announcement piece, right? ;-) the beta1 article was over 2200 words in first draft form. this was eventually trimmed down to be in the low 1700s, and even that's a bit long IMHO for a beta release announcement. getting it down to "just" that big required picking what to mention this time around and what to leave out for this announcement; i think that says a lot about the significance of KDE 3.2.

but have no fear, i'm sure the article for the 3.2 final release will be larger and more comprehensive.

Congratulations :o) i've downloaded KDE3.2 Beta, but after the installation there is no menu, nothing in the kcontrol-center and i can't open any directory on my desktop, does someone know what this is? i'm using SuSE 8.2

Running it as root won't fix the control center for your regular user account. Try running the kbuildsycoca command as the regular user you are signed in as after you make the symlink as root. Good luck.

it's ot important to remove da whole kdehome-directory (~/.kde) only the responsible files should be removed, e. g. to make kcontrol running, make the links discussed above and remove the file KDEHOME/share/config/kcontrolrc